MFL

MFL Long Term Plan 26-27

Intent

Through the framework of the National Curriculum 2019, MFL at Beeston aims to ensure that all pupils:

• Engage enthusiastically with language learning.
• Are stimulated through the children’s interest and enjoyment in the area of MFL with exciting and engaging lessons.
• Understand and respond to spoken and written language from a variety of authentic sources.
• Speak with increasing confidence, fluency and spontaneity, finding ways of communicating what they want to say, including through discussion and asking questions, and continually improving the accuracy of their pronunciation and intonation.

Pupils will be taught to:

• Listen attentively to spoken language and show understanding by joining in and responding.
• Explore the patterns and sounds of language through songs and rhymes and link the spelling, sound and meaning of words.
• Engage in conversations; ask and answer questions; express opinions and respond to those of others; seek clarification and help.
• Speak in sentences, using familiar vocabulary, phrases and basic language structures.
• Develop accurate pronunciation and intonation so that others understand when they are reading aloud or using familiar words and phrases.
• Present ideas and information orally to a range of audiences.
• Read carefully and show understanding of words, phrases and simple writing.
• Appreciate stories, songs, poems and rhymes in the language.
• Broaden their vocabulary and develop their ability to understand new words that are introduced into familiar written material, including through using a dictionary.
• Write phrases from memory, and adapt these to create new sentences, to express ideas clearly.
• Describe people, places, things and actions orally and in writing.

Implementation

Our intent is to foster an enthusiastic growth mindset towards languages, through opportunities to discover and explore cultural differences. We currently celebrate European Day of Languages through a variety of different games, activities and workshops. We have links to the local high school, and have been working with them to ensure our children are well prepared for their next step in education.

We base our teaching on the National Curriculum programme of study and the Language Angels Scheme of Work. We are currently teaching both French and Spanish to KS2 children, moving towards implementing Spanish as our target language.

We have adapted this to the context of our school and the abilities of our children. We use a variety of techniques to encourage children to engage actively in learning French and Spanish: these include games, role-play, songs and rhymes (particularly action songs). We may use videos, sound recordings and songs to demonstrate the language and for the pupils to hear more than one voice speaking language. We frequently use gestures to accompany new vocabulary in the foreign language, as this teaches the language without the need for translation. We teach skills in all four strands of language – listening, speaking, reading and writing. We also use a multi-sensory and kinaesthetic approach to teaching to reinforce memory. We aim to make lessons entertaining and enjoyable in order to develop a positive attitude to the learning of modern foreign languages. We build children’s confidence through constant praise for any contribution that they make in the foreign language, however tentative.

Impact

• • Pupil voice demonstrates that pupils enjoy languages and can talk about their learning using subject-specific vocabulary.
  • Pupils retain knowledge and develop skills in their language learning through Key Stage 2. They make links and build on their previous learning over time.
  • Pupils achieve at least age-related expectations, and have opportunity to demonstrate working in depth, in line with our language assessment and knowledge development models.
  • Pupils are able to communicate effectively including in both spoken and written forms.
  • Pupils are well-prepared for their next stage of education.